Dynamic Wizard Pages

Hi,

I want to know if I will be able to use this wizard framework in my application.

My application is used to run surveys. The survey definitions are defined in a database .

The application reads questions and associated question options from a database and uses this information to populate the question.

Each question defined has associated attributes like the control type that is used to display the options in or TextBox to allow the user to enter the answer, the data type and a few other options.

The wizard will contains static start and finish pages and all the pages in between are dynamic.

Is there a way that the wizard framework can be used in these circumstances where the tab pages are added and setup at run time?

If this is possible, do you have any sample applications?

Thanks,

Matt

Hello Matt,

The wizard can certainly be used in this manner, in fact it's ideally suited for it. I don't have any sample applications but I'll try to explain it here. Obviously the creation of controls dynamically for questions would be up to you.

You would create a WizardPage for each question/section then add it to the wizard. You can set a page's NextPage and PreviousPage properties dynamically depending on what questions have been answered if you like.

The events raised by each page such as BeforeMoveNext give you an opportunity to change the NextPage property dymanically based on user choices.

I hope this information is what you need.

I'm doing something similar, except that the design of the wizard is self service. Is it possible to host the wizard control in anything other than a form?

It would be nice to do this so that I can provide a live preview of what that particular WizardPage will look like.

Thanks


EDIT: The reason I ask is that I tried to drop the control into a panel control and it threw a designer error, but I just tried it in a form and it did the same thing, so I've got something else going on.

Yes - there's no need for the wizard to necessarily be hosted in a form, though this will be greatly beneficial when it comes to the "Aero" style of wizard.